CalendarZ

  1. Home
  2. On This Day
  3. August
  4. 24
  5. John Owen (theologian)

Deaths on August 24

John Owen (theologian)
1683Aug, 24

John Owen (theologian)

John Owen, English theologian and academic (b. 1616)
John Owen (1616 – 24 August 1683) was an English Nonconformist church leader, theologian, and academic administrator at the University of Oxford.

He was briefly a member of parliament for the University's constituency, sitting in the First Protectorate Parliament of 1654 to 1655.

References

Choose Another Date

Events on 1683

  • 16Jul

    Battle of Penghu

    Manchu Qing dynasty naval forces under traitorous commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
  • 12Sep

    Battle of Vienna

    Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna: Several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
  • 3Oct

    Battle of Penghu

    The Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reaches Taiwan (under the Kingdom of Tungning) to receive the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang and Liu Guoxuan after the Battle of Penghu.
  • 6Oct

    Germantown, Philadelphia

    German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.